March 3, Paper Kite Festival.

This day is another noisy festival after the Shangyuan Festival.

Outside the city of Tokyo, the scenery is picturesque, full of greenery, and countless tourists and all kinds of vendors have gathered in the direction of several major city gates, and even the large and small shops under the state bridge have come to join in the fun, set up wooden tables, and gamble to win and lose.

Every year, there is a competition in the Paper Kite Festival, which is hosted by the Tokyo Paper Kite Society, and the rewards are also from the Paper Kite Society, which is a spontaneous organization in the private market, just like the Circle Society of Keju and the Qiyun Society, which are not officially established.

Paper Kite Society from the scale, or the composition of the membership, are not comparable with the Circle Society Qiyun Society this kind of organization, Tokyo City spread, if you talk about the romance, there is no Circle Society, but also spread, people are all Qiyun Society, three brocade alone to compete for the first.

The Paper Kite Club naturally does not have this kind of reputation, after all, the game of Paper Kite, children, women, and even old men and women, almost everyone can participate, and there is no threshold at all.

The members of the Paper Kite Society are generally ordinary people, and the president and vice president are just some wealthy businessmen, and the Yuan Society, even Gao Yu is just an ordinary member, and the president above is a relative of the emperor.

Early this morning, Zhao Ta ordered people to prepare carriages and horses, planning to go outside the city to watch, and he also sent Lei San to buy a lot of paper kites in the outside store, and sent them to some servants in the house, asking them to sign up and participate in the paper kite competition.

Two carriages, a hundred or so people, marched out of the palace gate after breakfast.

Zhao Ta rode a horse, followed by Su Shi with the guards, Su Shi's arm that was broken by Fang La during the Shangyuan Festival had almost recovered, and it was no longer a big problem to wield a sword and dance a sword.

At this moment, there are many pedestrians on the streets, all of whom are going to go out of the city, old and young, men and women, noisy, carrying all kinds of paper kites, carrying large and small fruit baskets and food boxes, and their faces are full of happy smiles.

Out of the city, the competition has not officially started, but there are already a lot of scattered paper kites floating in the sky, colorful, and beautiful.

Zhao Ta got off the horse, the guards set up chairs and tables, Xiao Niang got down from the carriage, looking nervous, but seeing the lively atmosphere in front of her, there was some joy in her heart, Jin'er even took a paper kite of Chunyan and kept fiddling there.

The forbidden army that maintained order rushed over to say hello, Zhao Ta explained a few words, and they all bowed and left.

The day was filled with joy both inside and outside Tokyo until noon, but it was suddenly broken at noon.

Zhao Ta went to the south gate, sitting not far from the Hulong River, just when the sun was hanging in the middle and the spring was the warmest, on the official road not far away, a fast horse stepped on the smoke and dust, galloping.

The horse did not shy away from pedestrians, and there were even those who were swaying on the official road and had a big and lazy heart, and were directly scratched by the horse and taken to the side and slightly injured.

When Zhao Tan saw this scene, he couldn't help frowning slightly, but he didn't send anyone to stop him.

His eyesight was excellent, and he could already see that the man on the horse was actually a herald of the forbidden army.

The herald's soft armor was no longer recognizable, but his helmet and a banner on his back could identify him.

Zhao Tan couldn't help frowning slightly, only to see that the herald soldier did not slow down when he arrived at the city gate, and shouted in his mouth: "Anhui West Urgent, Anhui West Urgent, quickly give way!" ”

He wanted to rush into the city gate, but unexpectedly, the horse under his crotch lost his strength because he had been running for too long, or he tripped over something, and he lost his front hooves directly in front of the city gate, fell to his knees, and the herald was immediately thrown out.

Seeing this, Zhao Ta stood up and walked over quickly, at this time, many people who put paper kites avoided from afar, and no one came to see the excitement, and some knowledgeable people knew that this must be a military emergency, even if they didn't know it, they guessed what happened to something.

Zhao Ta passed, the city gate forbidden army was surrounding this person and didn't know what to do, and saw that Zhao Ta hurriedly made a way.

Zhao Ta saw that the herald had fallen hard, and his mouth was full of blood, but he was still muttering: "Urgent, urgent......"

Zhao Ta leaned down and said, "I am the King of Qi, what is the urgent report?" ”

When the herald heard the word King Qi, he sat up "suddenly", and took out a scroll of paper from his arms: "Prince, urgent report, urgent report in western Anhui......

After Zhao Ta took the scroll paper, he saw this person fall to the ground again with a "poof", and he didn't know if he had returned to the light just now, whether he had fainted or died now.

Zhao Ta grabbed the scroll paper and shouted to Su Shidao: "Send this urgent report to the Privy Council, and this person, let the forbidden army carry it over together!" ”

Su Shi took the order and took the people away, Zhao Ta returned to his seat, but this time he was no longer in such a relaxed mood, his expression was a little solemn, looking at the urgency of the herald, the battle situation in western Anhui was definitely not optimistic.

Just more than half an hour later, the paper kite competition was carried out at the most critical moment, and another horse galloped on the official road, this ride was as fast as the previous ride, and it was shouted all the way: "The military situation is urgent, and the idle people are waiting to dodge!" ”

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

The visitors had learned the lesson before, and no one came forward, and this horse galloped into the city.

Zhao Ta held the teacup, his eyes narrowed, in such a short period of time, two military emergency reports, this is not a simple war is not optimistic, this is ...... It should be a big defeat!

According to the character of Wang Xiang of the Privy Council, even if he is defeated, he will report good news and not bad news, unless he is defeated, he does not dare to hide it and cannot hide it, so he will send the military intelligence back in such a hurry.

Just when Zhao Ta was thinking, there was another herald on the official road, this horse was covered in blood, and I don't know if he met a thief, or if he fell off the horse before, his face was covered with black blood scabs, and he shouted while running: "100,000 urgent, 100,000 urgent, quickly give way!" ”

At this time, those tourists, including the contestants who are participating in the contest to release paper kites, are not calm, the president of the paper kite society is a silk merchant in Tokyo, although there is no official status, but the business is very large, and he has a good eye, at this time the expression is difficult to see, and he secretly wonders whether he should end this paper kite contest early.

Zhao Ta squinted slightly, his face was expressionless, and he gently turned the tea bowl in his hand, and the little lady next to him looked at him and wanted to say something, but he hesitated and didn't say it.

After another half an hour, two eunuchs hurriedly rode from the city with a look on their faces, led by Zheng Fu, who saw him jump off his horse before he arrived, staggered over, and said in a low voice: "Lord, the official family declares that the prince will enter the palace immediately." ”

Zhao Ta stood up and glanced at Xiao Niang, Xiao Niang looked at him with a restrained expression, Zhao Ta looked at Lei San next to him, Lei San immediately said: "Lord Wang, do you want to go back to the house immediately?" ”

Zhao Ta nodded: "Pass on the king's order, all the people in the palace who participated in the paper kite competition will go back, and then transfer all the people to accompany them." ”

Lei San said that he was leaving, and Zhao Ta walked in front of Qing Feng, turned over directly, and ran towards the city......

(End of chapter)